Flourish

He made his enlargements without flourish, without emphasis, and so casually that often one failed to notice that a change had been made.

You have my word on that.” Tyrion of House Lannister, he signed once more, with a flourish.

LVIII And, furthermore, her brethren wonder’d much Why she sat drooping by the Basil green, And why it flourish’d, as by magic touch; Greatly they wonder’d what the thing might mean: They could not surely give belief, that such A very nothing would have power to wean Her from her own fair youth, and pleasures gay, And even remembrance of her love’s delay.

“I’ll do it.” He signed with a flourish and suddenly turning to his son began to laugh.

He did it with some flourish of ceremony, for a mail journey from London in winter was an achievement to congratulate an adventurous traveller upon.

But it’s well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

“The description doesn’t fit, but if you flourish it, the chances are many to one they will not look closely.” “But you.

The vampire live on, and cannot die by mere passing of the time; he can flourish when that he can fatten on the blood of the living.

Finally, the only book left was the Potions book, which he looked at very carefully before speaking.“This is your copy of Advanced Potion-Making, is it, Potter?”“Yes,” said Harry, still breathing hard.“You’re quite sure of that, are you, Potter?”“Yes,” said Harry, with a touch more defiance.“This is the copy of Advanced Potion-Making that you purchased from Flourish and Blotts?”“Yes,” said Harry firmly.“Then why,” asked Snape, “does it have the name ‘Roonil Wazlib’ written inside the front cover?”Harry’s heart missed a beat.

Then Tamoszius Kuszleika, after replenishing himself with a pot of beer, returns to his platform, and, standing up, reviews the scene; he taps authoritatively upon the side of his violin, then tucks it carefully under his chin, then waves his bow in an elaborate flourish, and finally smites the sounding strings and closes his eyes, and floats away in spirit upon the wings of a dreamy waltz.

It flourish’d long, In pride of wealth and warlike people strong, Till curs’d Mezentius, in a fatal hour, Assum’d the crown, with arbitrary pow’r.

Animals require an environment of warmth to flourish.

Henchick removed it with a magician's flourish and disclosed a plumb-bob on a chain.

With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship.

Ser Eustace produced a cloak, and shook it out with a flourish.

“Father, mother, this is my friend, Professor Bhaer,” she said, with a face and tone of such irrepressible pride and pleasure that she might as well have blown a trumpet and opened the door with a flourish.

This writing allows for flourishes; now a flourish is a dangerous thing!

A confusion of helmets, of cries, of sabres, a stormy heaving of the cruppers of horses amid the cannons and the flourish of trumpets, a terrible and disciplined tumult; over all, the cuirasses like the scales on the hydra.

In these days of fatted cattle and waving grainfields this humble root, which was once the totem of an Indian tribe, is quite forgotten, or known only by its flowering vine; but let wild Nature reign here once more, and the tender and luxurious English grains will probably disappear before a myriad of foes, and without the care of man the crow may carry back even the last seed of corn to the great cornfield of the Indian’s God in the southwest, whence he is said to have brought it; but the now almost exterminated groundnut will perhaps revive and flourish in spite of frosts and wildness, prove itself indigenous, and resume its ancient importance and dignity as the diet of the hunter tribe.

It was a little conversational flourish, a gambit in the polite game.

In hotels that do not flourish, everything is in confusion, and the traveler is a victim to the embarrassments of his host.

The Capitol seal is back with a final musical flourish.

Enki's water -- his semen, his data, his me -- flow throughout the country of Sumer and cause it to flourish."

As soon as they were empty his hand was stretched to clap them noisily one above the other, and toss them out with a lesser flourish for the next guest in order, and so on round the assembly till all had drunk.

The Primum Mobile that fashioned us Has made the very owls in circles move; And I, that count myself most prosperous, Seeing that love and friendship are enough, For an old neighbour’s friendship chose the house And decked and altered it for a girl’s love, And know whatever flourish and decline These stones remain their monument and mine.

I beg of you to accept and present to your excellent sister my best marrow.” He stooped, and with a flourish produced an immense specimen of the tribe, which I duly accepted in the spirit in which it was offered.

If a variety were to flourish so as to exceed in numbers the parent species, it would then rank as the species, and the species as the variety; or it might come to supplant and exterminate the parent species; or both might coexist, and both rank as independent species.

The marquis stepped onto the platform, turned and waved with an elaborate flourish.

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.

You have my word on that.” Tyrion of House Lannister, he signed once more, with a flourish.

“Let me alone!” she said; “you are tumbling me.” One could hear the flourish of the violin and the notes of a horn.

He, however, was so positive they were giants that he neither heard the cries of Sancho, nor perceived, near as he was, what they were, but made at them shouting, “Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you.” A slight breeze at this moment sprang up, and the great sails began to move, seeing which Don Quixote exclaimed, “Though ye flourish more arms than the giant Briareus, ye have to reckon with me.” So saying, and commending himself with all his heart to his lady Dulcinea, imploring her to support him in such a peril, with lance in rest and covered by his buckler, he charged at Rocinante’s fullest gallop and fell upon the first mill that stood in front of him; but as he drove his lance-point into the sail the wind whirled it round with such force that it shivered the lance to pieces, sweeping with it horse and rider, who went rolling over on the plain, in a sorry condition.

With a masterful flourish, he brought the briefing to a close and turned expectantly to receive ardent congratulations from General Dreedle—who was already striding out of the building without a glance backward, trailing his nurse and Colonel Moodus behind him.

They may flourish amidst the ruin of their country, and begin to decay upon the return of its prosperity.